The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Pittsburg club claims that the salary
List of its players will reach $4,000.
THE five League umpires are WyckoR,
Powers, Quest, Doesher and Wilson.
JONES of the Cincinnatis made the first
home run Of the season in an Indianapolis
Cincinnati game.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, of the Chicago Club, is
having considerable trouble in getting the
range Of low balls.
CINcINNATIs first baseman, Reilly, is the
tallest man in the Association, being six feet
two inches in height.
PRESIDENT SPALDING, Of the Chicagos, Is
said to be worth $2,000,00 Ten years ago
he was playing ball for living.
UNDER the new rules pitche.>can take q
step in delivering the ball, providing his
forward foot is on the ground when the ball
is sdelivered.
ONE Of the features of the instruction given
to umpires of the American Association was
to call every ball that passes over any portion
Of the plate strike.
THE Southern League clubs will have COM
bined mileage of 43, ,0O0 miles, and this does
not include the thousands of miles the boys
will run on the diamond.
THE left-handed twirlers will prove effec-
tive this year on account of batsmen not being
allowed to call for high balls on them. They
can pitch to suit themselves.
ALL the members of the Baltimore Ameri-
can Association team, an exchange remarks,
are remarkably built men, and not a man
measures less than thirty-seven inches across
the chest.
The League umpires will inset Secretary
Young at his residence in Washington for the
purpose of going over the rules and deciding
upon their Interpretation, so that decisions
may be uniform.
SOME of the New York papers think that
Newark and Jersey City will have all they
can handle in trying to keep from occupying
positions close to the tail end Of the Inter-
national League race.
A NOVEL method OF training has been
adopted by Carroll, the Pittsburg League
Club catcher, for hardening his hands. In
stead of catching behind the bat, he has a
player to pound the palms of his hands with
club.
The salaries of the Indianapolis League
Club players will aggregate nearly $50, ,OOO
Glasscock, who will be captain of the club,
will receive $1,000, while Denny will be paid
S2,600 and his travelling expenses from Oak
land, Cal, to indianapolis and return. The
compensation of the rest of the team Will
range from 81, ,4VO to $1,000.
THE DIFFERENT BASEBALL LEAGUES
The twelve important baseball leagues
control more than eighty clubs, and about
1,700 players. Taking $500 as an average
salary for players, the aggregate would be
SS50,OO to fielders and batteries, and that is
but one item Of many. The leagues and clubs
are as follows:
National League-Boston, Chicago, Detroit,
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Wash
ington, indianapolis.
American Observation-Disclosures Philadel-
Cleveland, Louisville, Metropolitan, st.
Louis.
International League-Buffalo, Bingham
ton, Hamilton, Jersey City. Newark, Oswego,
Rochester, Syracuse, Toronto, Utica.
Northwestern League-Des Moines: Duluth,
Eau Claire, La Crosse, Minneapolis, Milwau-
kee, Oshkosh, st. Paul.
Western League-Denver, Hastings, Leav-
enworth, Kansas City, Lincoln, Omaha, st.
Joseph, Topeka.
Southern League-Charleston, Memphis,
Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, Savan-
nah.
New England League-Boston, Haverhlll,
Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Manchester, Port
land, Salem.
Eastern League Bridgeport, Danbury,
Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, Spring
field.
Pennsylvania Association-Altoona, Brad
ford, Reading, Scranton, Wilhamspors,
WilkeSbarre.
Michigan State League-kalamazoo,G Grand
Rapids, Lansing.
Ohio League Sandusky, Mansfield, Wheel
National Colorcd League-Cincinnati,
Washington, Louisville, New York, Pitts
burg, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston.